I'm currently trying to get LVM working on another Linux/PowerPC distro
(YellowDog) with limited success.
I have a self-compiled 2.4.24 kernel, with MD, RAID and LVM installed
into the kernel. It's booting a Wallstreet powerbook off the internal
IDE drive. I'm trying to get LVM working on an external SCSI disk.
Most of the commands (pvcreate, lvcreate etc.) appear to work at first,
except for vgscan, which dumps core.
~ > sudo vgscan -v
vgscan -- removing "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
vgscan -- creating empty "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
vgscan -- scanning for all active volume group(s) first
vgscan -- found active volume group "vg"
vgscan -- reading data of volume group "vg" from physical volume(s)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Ignoring that, I was able to create several logical volumes, initialize
them, put an ext2 filesystem on them and then mount them.
~ > df -h /dev/vg/*
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vg/group 496M 101M 369M 22%
/dev/vg/home 1008M 20K 956M 1% /mnt/Temp/home
/dev/vg/root 1008M 872K 955M 1% /mnt/Temp
/dev/vg/usr 1008M 20K 956M 1% /mnt/Temp/usr
/dev/vg/var 1008M 20K 956M 1% /mnt/Temp/var
Unfortunately, something about the lvscan crash is causing problems
later on.
~ > sudo lvdisplay -v /dev/vg
lvdisplay -- ERROR: VGDA in kernel and lvmtab are NOT consistent;
please run vgscan
Since this isn['t working, I haven't actually tried to use the mounted
volumes for anything.
I'll try recompiling the lvm package against my current kernel and
investigate further. Was there anything else special you needed to do
to
get LVM working on Debian/PPC?
-dean takemori
On Jan 19, 2004, at 1:14 AM, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
wrote:
In mac-fdisk I tried the C command, and when it asked for the type I
tried the hex number both with and without the 0x prefix. I tried also
the lvm name simply.
In the end it all failed and I just left it as free space, and that's
when I got LVM to work.
